A birthright citizenship showdown. We knew SCOTUS’ ruling on universal injunctions wasn’t the final answer to Donald Trump’s day one executive order on birthright citizenship. Now that a federal judge in New Hampshire ruled that a class action lawsuit about the executive order could go forward, the real policy fight begins.
What happens next depends on how aggressive the administration will be. There could be months of class actions like the one in New Hampshire winding its way through the courts before it gets to SCOTUS, or the administration could ask the court to jump in earlier.
They’re sounding aggressive: “Today’s decision is an obvious and unlawful attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s clear order against universal relief,” White House spox Harrison Fields said.